After nearly sixteen years the Justice Nanavati Commission has indicted me by using the rather unfortunate phrase “probably.”
The Akali Party and the BJP got together when the Justice Nanavati Commission Report was submitted in Parliament by the Minister for Home Affairs of the Government of India. They made a lot of noise and said a lot of bad things, not only about me, but about respected people like the present Prime Minister, Dr. Man Mohan Singh and the Congress Party itself. These people who today are using abusive and bad language have definitely forgotten that it was the Congress Party and its very senior members like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru and many others in the Congress Party were the people who brought the British Empire to its knees, and gave India its much deserved Independence.
Unable to bear the falseness of their arguments, unable to hear such bad language from the mouths of honorable Members of Parliament, there was only one way
left for me. I got up and submitted my resignation and said that I would not like to be a part of a House that spoke in this manner, and that I will not take any part in the Government until my name was cleared. You will agree that there was nothing else that could be done.
I would like to tell you all, that inspite of this fact, the Cabinet gave me a ‘clean chit’.